r/politics • u/soloChristoGlorium • Feb 02 '25

Paywall Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system

https://www.ft.com/content/27ba0a6a-0d9b-4e08-8329-730b581c0481
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u/poliranter Feb 02 '25

I'd say good for all of us adults who either didn't work hard enough to stop him, or for some REASON BEYOND SANITY decided they were "gonna show Biden/Harris" and not vote for the "lesser of the two evils." Congrats on that last by the way. How's it working out?

But my kid? she's up front, just had a soccer game and she's got her whole life in front of her, and I... I can't even look her in the eye when I think of this. When I think of just how much HARM we've done to her generation and how they may very well never enjoy the things we take for granted. We did this to them.

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u/incongruity Illinois Feb 03 '25

We did this to them.

No – we just failed to stop it. Not for a lack of trying.

I get you, I do – I love my kids beyond words and every parent has dreams of their kids having better lives, being better people, living in a better world than we have – I get it. All I can do is work my hardest and make sure they know how much they are loved.

But we didn't do this to them. It's happening to us, just like it's happening to them too.

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u/poliranter Feb 03 '25

Yeah, but maybe we could have worked harder, I could have worked harder. Long ago, my dad told me that the two most terrible words in the English language were: If Only.

I'm fifty now, and for the first time, I truly understand that.

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u/RJ815 Feb 03 '25

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

We'll see how many good men and women exist in the coming days.